Yup, Lewis, you are getting your Wisdom Teeth. Many times they come in very crooked, sometimes sideways, or only partially through the gums and the skin grows over them and cuts through once again time after time.

Hopefully yours will come in normally.

John

_________________________“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy ____…! What a ride!’” ~Hunter S. Thompson

I only have one! a friend of mine had the same thing happen to him, he had it pulled, but I have not, the dentist said I would have to see and oral surgeon and I do not want to,but when it gets painful enough, I will consider it.

I don't wanna scare you, just inform you that you could have one, two, three, or all four. Just the way it is, you can find out buy going to a dentist and getting ex-rays taken, if you really want to know.

Loge

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"Terrible thing to live in Fear"-Shawshank Redemption WOR Alumnus Hope Springs 2009"Quite a thing to live in fear, this is what is means to be a slave"-Blade Runner

Lewis, if it hurts I would try chewing some ice or putting something very cold on it (so it will numb). If it doesn't hurt then I guess you are in good shape. Some of my friends have had theirs hurt so badly they need to have surgery to get them removed. I don't mean to scare you... just want you to be okay. Be aware of the pain!

All four of mine were "impacted." I needed surgery to remove them. Prior to the surgery, everytime I bit down and food was caught back there, it was like someone taking a razor blade to my gums. Oh it was so painful.

After the surgery wasn't much of a picnick either. Hopefully, you'll be lucky and they'll grow in straight and all the way through you gums. If this isn't the case, let me know and I'll put you on my prayer list. LOL hahahaha...

Rich

Edited by Stretch73 (12/11/0805:32 AM)

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Same here Rich!All impacted, and lucky me got a horse-sized needle of novocaine in the back of my throat and a Valium IV... i REALLY wish they'd just put me under.

Out the door with a mouth full of gauze, totally numb from my nose down to my throat, then a week of Percoset-induced sleep/nausea, and hating the hell out those stitches that just would not dissolve fast enough!

Fun, fun, fun...

Oh, Lewis- this isn't common at all, so don't freak out

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Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speakWhispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

When I had mine pulled at the age of 20.The dentist gave me novaine and then proceed to pull all four of my wisdom teeth out. And it was back to work the next day.In the Marine Corps if your not dead you are expected to be at work and on time.The thing that freaked me out was when he showed me the giant size mayonize jar full of wisedom teeth he was collecting.

Mike

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"IT ought never be forgotten that the past is the parent of the future" John C. Calhoun

Hi, to all persons who had/have wisdom-teeth. I was 29 years old, when mine were pulled. I went on military sick call for a back problem, I was stationed in Vietnam at the time. So I go and see the Doc. for my back, he tells me open my mouth and say aaaahhhh. So he tells me that I am in the wrong clinic, and he makes a 'phone call, and then tells me see that guy down the corridor? Yep, sure do then he tells me that he's the dentist and he is going to pull out your wisdom teeth, well I damn near died right there, as there was no way that I was going to get out of that hospital without going to the dentist. I hated dentists, In the Air Force on each of your birthday months, you HAD to go to the dental clinic for a check up, So I went, and then after the exam they gave me a whole bunch of pink appointment slips for ALL the WORK that I needed, well OK. So after a day or so I call the dental clinic and tell them that I need to cancel my appointments as I am going on TDY (temporary duty) military speak. Well they tell me ok we cancelled them, but be sure and call us when you get back so we can reschudle, HA HA. I never called, and if there was any possible way for me to wiggle out of a dental appointment I will. But in Vietnam they had me by the balls and my wisdom teeth. They gave me novocane plus darvon pain killers, well let me tell you that from the heat and humidity in Vietnam I was on cloud nine for about 12 hours. OOOOPS, another "war story". Heal well on both fronts my friends/brothers.Pete (Irishmoose)

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